Black and White
Words & Music: Sonya Isaacs
Makem Smile Music/Spirit High Ridge Music, BMI
Key: Cm
Chords: Cm, Fm, Gm, Ab
(If you play with a capo on the 3rd fret, the chords are Am, Dm, Em, and F respectively)
Cm
Oh, let me tell my story friend
FmGmCm
That you might learn to stay away from sin
Cm
I took a life not mine to take
FmGmCm
Imprisoned for this haunting dread mistake
My heart was harder than my soul
They sentenced me to life without parole
Where no one cares, we’re all the same
And I must wear this number for my name
Chorus
AbCm
Now life to me is black and white
FmGmCm
I’ll wear these stripes until the day I die
AbCm
But this ball and chain around my leg
Fm
Won’t drag me down, won’t drag me down
GmCm
When I am dead
My mother prayed so hard for me
She did her time down on bended knees
But I was young and I had no fear
Her pleading voice still echoes in my ear
Don’t let the beauty blind your eyes
This world is filled with discolored lies
For greener fields don’t sell your soul
You’ll think you’re rich with a pocket of fool’s gold
Chorus
I’d rather be in this dark cell
Than to be free and die and go to hell
God bless the day of my new birth
I don’t have to pay the price that I deserve
Chorus
Ending:
AbCm
And when I’m dead and take my flight
FmGmCm
I’ll leave behind this world of black and white
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